Designed by Occupational Therapist Pam Pinto, the mural plays multiple roles for the unit’s patients. It helps to differentiate their space from the adult patients staying there and works on important skills, offering patients a healthy activity that they have a personal stake in, Pinto said in a news release from Adventist Hinsdale.

Fourteen adolescent patients took part in the mural’s construction, starting with Pinto’s design and then painting their own personal additions. The patients, for instance, came up with the clownfish and turtles on their own.

An amateur artist, Pinto has done murals for family and friends, but this is her first on the Behavioral Health Unit.